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Warped MTB Tyres
I recently bought a used Canyon Spectral, which came with Maxxis minion and highroller 27.5 x 2.3 TR tyres. Both tyres appear to be warped. The rims are fine and I’ve tried installing with several ...
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Bike repair put a 700-20 tire on my 700-25 road bike, should I replace it?
I had a flat tire in my rear wheel, so I took my road bike to the repair shop. They had to replace both the inner tube and the tire. After using it for 2-3 times. (mostly just going in to the gym or ...
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Confused about tire leakage, valve not attached
I’ve gotten a second hand mountain bicycle (felt brand), now the back tire is leaking air and is unusable.
First, I thought that the tube was burst and would need replacing. But now I am just confused ...
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Fixing a winter tire with poking studs using tube patches. Will it work?
My rear tire, a Schwalbe Marathon winter K-guard 120 studs, had some studs poking through the inner casing of the tire after approximately 1300km/1 winter season. It happened on two separate occasions ...
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Rear tire gets flat every month for unknown reasons
My rear tire gets flat almost every month without any obvious reasons. Few times it lost the pressure while riding but I do not see or remember puncturing it, and once it was on a good tarmac street ...
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What's the point of tyre boots?
The title is a little provocative, but how often are they actually useful?
Only once in 4 tyre failures would a boot have helped, when I nicked the sidewall on a cattle grid with a rough weld, making ...
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Cannot put a tire whatever I do
I cannot put a replacement tire on my rear wheel, whatever I do, have spent half a day on this. It just should not be so extremely difficult, I have tools and it is not the first tire I am replacing ...
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Replacing inner tubes & tires - tube seems too large for tire
I inherited an older road bike from my sister that I wanted to fix up for my daughter. The tires and inner tubes needed to be replaced.
The existing inner tubes were old and faded, but I could read a ...
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Fitting a new tyre and cassette
Hello I recently had one of the cogs on my cassette snap due to lack of care on my side obviously (the smallest one). This occurred due to my chain skipping and putting an unfortunate amount of force ...
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Tyre not aligned with rim [duplicate]
So I just replaced my bike rim since the spokes & hub were way too old. I go on and and install same tyre but with new inner tube - so essentially only things that changed are rim and inner tube.
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Sidewall cut on brand new tyre - permanent fix possible?
I bought a new set of tyres (Continental Grand Prix 5000). Being an idiot, I managed to cut the sidewall of the tyre with a knife while removing the packaging.
I have looked at repairing it, and came ...
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How urgently do I need to replace my tire?
When I came home today from by bike ride I found my tire like this:
I understand that I'll need to change my tire. My question is how urgent is this? Can I just keep using the tire until it stops ...
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Does the glue in tyre repair kits expire?
I have a tyre repair kit that I bought ~4 years ago. I never used it. In fact, I never used such a kit in my life.
Does the glue expire after some time, or is it good indefinitely? The tube is still ...
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How to mount tires without tire levers?
Videos like this give the impression that mounting a tire with your hands only is stupidly easy. Now during my life I've mounted quite a few tires myself (probably ten times at least), always trying ...
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Is there a permanent (non-emergency) patch/boot for a tire, NOT for a tube?
I have a discontinued tire with a tiny hole in the sidewall. I’d rather keep/use the tire if possible. I’m very familiar with emergency tire boots, but those are for emergencies. I’ve left them on ...
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